Will and a team of mercenaries were using a helicopter and a collection box to get Brooklyn the next day.
The gargoyles, even Brooklyn, were all out on the parapets like usual. Brooklyn still slept out there with his clan, but they would have no idea this was happening.
Xanatos and Owen were preparing to go start another day of running their business when they heard the sound of a copter outside. They ran back outside and they saw some men putting a strap belt around Brooklyn's stone frame. His belly easily giving away his secret.
Owen went to grab the laser gun that was nearby.
"Hold your fire. Brooklyn and his baby mustn't be damaged." David ordered.
Owen could understand why. They just didn't know who was ordering this.
The copter flew away once it had Brooklyn off the parapet. He was pulled into the collection box carefully.
"We have the gargoyle, Sevarius. Xanatos saw us, but we knew he would hold his fire." Will said.
"Good. Come to Nightstone Unlimited's rooftop." Anton ordered.
"Yes. While he's still stone, or wait until after sunset?"
"Now." Anton ordered. "We must be ready right away to deal with him."
The pilot was ordered to go to Nightstone Unlimited.
Within a little while, Brooklyn was delivered to Demona's job place. His frame was placed gently on a gurney, and he was taken inside to a table in a surgical room. Shackles were placed on his limbs and tail. Everything would tighten the first moment he woke up. Right now, he had a happy look on his face.
The scientists knew he wouldn't be pleased when he woke up and found himself here in his enemy's quarters.
…
That night, David told the clan that Brooklyn had been taken during the day that morning. For what, he didn't know, and he didn't know who it was.
"We will find Brooklyn, no matter how long it takes." Goliath declared.
"He can't be out there in his condition." Angela agreed.
"Let's go!" Broadway said angrily that his bro had been targeted.
The clan all flew off into the night to find the second in command male.
….
At Nightstone, Brooklyn awoke from his stone shell, and after it was off, immediately the chains tightened, pulling his arms and legs down to the table.
Brooklyn's eyes were still crystal white, and now, he snarled that he was tied down.
"Oh, I know. It's not right to be tied down in chains first thing in the evening." Demona greeted him.
"Demona! What do you want?! Let me go!" Brooklyn demanded furiously.
"Not until my partner gets a sample from what you hold inside you." Demona said.
Brooklyn froze and his eyes returned to normal. "How do you know anything about me?"
"A little birdie told me." she teased him.
"Winston?"
"No. Someone else. That is not important." she said.
"And now that you are awake, I can get my sample." Anton Sevarius came into his view.
"Sevarius? You two are working together?" Brooklyn asked in shock.
"Yes. We have been for a long time." Demona replied.
"This will hurt, Gargoyle. Brooklyn, is it?" Anton asked.
Brooklyn saw the maniac man prepare an ultrasound machine. He knew what he was going to do. His swollen stomach was clearly showing the world what he carried. He began to squirm. He didn't want the man to get the pleasure of seeing his child.
"Let me go!" The pregnant gargoyle demanded.
"I don't think so. Demona, if you could get the gel on him and hold the wand till I'm ready with the needle." Anton directed her.
"Yes, Sevarius. This I would like to see for myself how a male such as yourself could even be pregnant in the first place." Demona sneered at Brooklyn.
This made him hate her all the more. He struggled some more.
When Anton brought the needle back with him, Brooklyn got a look at it, and the length of it scared him. No way! He squirmed at his hardest, but wasn't getting anywhere.
Demona stepped forward with a tube. She took the lid off and punched him in the face. It made him stop moving about as she now applied the gel to his stomach.
Tears formed in Brooklyn's eyes as he turned his head to see what happened next. Anton now took the wand and he placed it onto the gel on his stomach to examine the baby.
Both Sevarius and Demona looked on the computer to see a baby gargoyle that looked a lot like its carrier. Then, the man prepared the needle and he aimed it for the spot.
Brooklyn tried to prevent him from getting what he wanted.
Demona had to step in again. This time, she punched him hard in the ribs, causing him to struggle to breathe. His lungs were already beginning to work on overtime, with making sure he got enough oxygen for both him and the baby.
Brooklyn had been sticking close to home the last several weeks. He only glided at home, but now, he knew he needed to get out of here. The weight of the baby wasn't too much at the moment, but it would be soon.
Sevarius found the spot with the ultrasound, and with the needle, while Brooklyn was winded, he poked the needle into Brooklyn's skin on his stomach.
Brooklyn flinched his stomach and grunted at the poke. But the needle was already on its way in further.
Anton poked the amniotic sac and collected some fluid, and then poked a piece of the baby. The baby immediately recoiled, but not fast enough that the maniac had a sample of its DNA. He pulled the needle out slowly.
"What… are you… going to do?" Brooklyn demanded.
"Ooh, just check to see if the baby has any abnormalities. Human women must go through this too, at one point or another. Usually at five months. But thank you for the DNA sample, Brooklyn." Anton said smugly.
"And I think it just right for you to expire and we'll raise your baby in one of those tubes, just like we did the clones." Demona said.
"No! I won't let you!" Brooklyn exclaimed. He began to squirm again. He would be bruised for tonight, but stone sleep would heal him. But he also had to get free and get that sample back. He wasn't about to let these villains raise and exploit his child as their own.
"But what's going to happen to me?" he asked.
"Do you really have to know, Brooklyn? Your baby is going to become the new you on the circuit." Demona declared proudly. "Its had its fair share of you. You're superfluous. Expendable."
"NO!" Brooklyn knew he needed to get out of here, and fast. He began to really squirm in his bonds. "There's no way I'm going to let you have my baby!"
"You don't have a choice, Brooklyn. It belongs to us now. And I'll make sure it's raised to know what humans are really like. An opportunity that was denied me from my real daughter." Demona stated.
"I'm glad you didn't get to raise Angela. She turned out far better than you did." Brooklyn growled at her.
"I'm glad you're not going to live to see another night." She snarled back at him.
Brooklyn began to try to gather all the strength that he could to try to desperately get out of his bonds before the doctor would start taking his child out of his body. It wasn't ready to be born yet.
With strong, deep breaths, Brooklyn gave it everything he had to get free of these shackles. In one ditch effort, the one on his left arm began to shatter and he pulled his arm free. He punched Demona in the face, knocking her away from him.
He made quick work of getting out of his other shackles. He jumped off the table as fast as his reflexes would let him in his condition.
Demona recovered enough that she began to chase him around the room. "Get back here, Brooklyn!"
Sevarius was staying out of their fighting. He was just ready to get the job done. He would remove the baby from the red gargoyle before morning when he was recaptured.
Brooklyn would normally not run from a fight, but he didn't want to risk harming the baby. But the female gargoyle kept on chasing him around the room, making him even take to the air. She followed him. He didn't get the chance to get the DNA sample back.
At one point, she did catch up to him, but he used his tail to whack her in the face. It caught her off guard, but she still pursued him.
He got down to the floor once he found the door and he rammed his shoulder into the door, trying to get out of the room before Demona caught up to him again. He managed to get the door down, and he ran.
Demona proceeded to run after him. "You won't be able to run far in your condition, Brooklyn. You aren't meant to carry a baby anyway. That's a job for me to do."
"I'll never let you have my baby, Demona!" Brooklyn yelled back at her.
He found his way into a different room and saw a window that he was going to make a desperate try to get away. He could feel the weight of the baby was taking a toll on him. But he wasn't going to let his child down.
He ran hard and fast toward the window, and it shattered on impact. When he saw he was outside, Brooklyn quickly spread his wings and took to the air on a strong updraft. He saw where he was too and he would get home.
Demona took to the air after him. She was determined to get the baby.
Brooklyn held his stomach with one arm, trying to support the weight of his baby. He was already breathing hard from all the running and jumping about in the room.
Demona was determined to get Brooklyn back. She chased him over half the city. Her business was a good distance away from the Xanatos building. She was sure he wouldn't be making it back there anytime soon. She knew Brooklyn was fast, but the baby would sooner or later slow him down more.
Just when it looked like she was about to grab him up again, Goliath and Broadway found them.
"Brooklyn!" Broadway called out.
"Goliath! Help! Get her away from me!" Brooklyn saw the two bigger clan mates.
Demona stopped pursuing Brooklyn to know she was outmatched with the other two joining him.
"Demona, why are you after Brooklyn?" Goliath demanded.
"I want his baby!"
"You're never going to get it. We'll see to that." Goliath declared. "Broadway, get Brooklyn back to the castle."
Broadway nodded and he led his brother back towards the castle while Goliath and Demona had a brawl.
Brooklyn would normally love to take her on, but he just couldn't while he was pregnant. The thing was, he didn't know who had told her or Sevarius that he was expecting. But then, he had a suspicion, hoping it wasn't true.
They soon got back home. Goliath joined them soon after. He had chased Demona off. He was alright.
Brooklyn had needed to sit down and catch his breath from the pursuit. He was tired, and his wings were tired from gliding such a distance. He just wasn't used to it anymore. But that was why he needed to keep on exercising his wing muscles. He couldn't let them get weak, pregnant or not.
"Are you alright, Brooklyn?" Goliath asked.
"Barely. Demona and Sevarius, I found out they were working together, and they were ready to take my baby from me. She wanted to raise it for herself." Brooklyn explained.
"We won't let that happen." Broadway declared. "She has no right to do that to you."
"They were going to kill me if I didn't get away. But I'd like to know, how did they even know that I was pregnant?" Brooklyn asked.
"They took you during the day. Someone maybe even we know might have told them." Goliath said.
"I hope it wasn't Winston." Brooklyn said.
"He's going to have a lot of explaining to do when he comes back next time." Broadway declared angrily.
"I agree." Goliath said.
….
The clan soon returned and were glad that Brooklyn had been found. But he seemed traumatized a bit more. He didn't want to be touched or anything.
Angela talked to Brooklyn about what her mother had done to him. When he didn't want to talk to the others, he would sometimes still talk to Angela though. She had a way of comforting him.
"What happened, Brooklyn?" Angela asked.
"They were determined to want to take my baby from me. Sevarius also used a long needle to poke into my stomach and get a DNA sample. And who knows what he would do with it. Make another evil clone?" Brooklyn explained. It made him shiver just to think about it.
"We'll make sure nothing happens to you or the baby." Angela laid a hand on his shoulder. "We care about you both."
"I know. Thanks." Brooklyn said. He really wished she would have chosen him to be her mate.
Once the story was told, the clan and Brooklyn had to decide on some new rules.
While he was pregnant, after tonight, Brooklyn was to be off the parapets until after the birth of his child, so this wouldn't happen again. They weren't going to risk him being reeled in in the daytime again. And he wasn't to leave the castle grounds unless he was with one of the others and had permission.
But, whenever Winston would come over again, he would have a lot to explaining to do. If he was found out about, the clan would make sure he never came back, but if not, he could continue coming by. The choice of punishment.